I truly love how words sound. I love the word serendipity, which makes me think of sudden joy. And the word ephemeral makes me momentarily all happy and warm. Cozy sounds just . . . well . . . cozy, and spelunking sounds like it will include dripping water in mysterious caves. There are words, however, that may sound fine but may not mean what you think they mean. Penultimate is not quite as final as it sounds. Inflammable actually means the same thing as flammable. And, getting back to the sound of words, "sang" and "sank" - though both perfectly fine for Spellcheck, as well as sounding almost the same when read aloud - have very different meanings. Which is why I laughed pretty hard when I
I know I've mentioned many times that Spellcheck should be considered a "frenemy" because it doesn't always catch obvious errors. Unfortunately, once you get really used to having Spellcheck in all of your documents, you tend to forget that it doesn't check the spelling of graphics. In other words, if you've got an artist creating images for you, those images won't be checked by the program when they're inserted into your work. (Which probably seems pretty obvious.) What may not seem quite so obvious is that this also applies to a lot of file-creation programs. Even programs that are made to integrate seamlessly into MSWord or other word processing programs don't usually have MSWord-style sp
